And his alarm went off to wake him but he didn't make it to the Rap OlympicsSlept through his plane and he missed it

Before Eminem was famous, he participated in an event called the Rap Olympics, which is a freestyle rap battle competition (kinda like 8 Mile). Em came in 2nd, but all that mattered was that exposure from the event helped him gain the attention of Interscope executive Jimmy Iovine, and Dr. Dre decided to sign Eminem to his Insterscope subsidiary label, Aftermath.

The night before he headed to the Rap Olympics, an annual nationwide MC battle in L.A., he came home to a locked door and an eviction notice. “I had to break in,” he says. “I didn’t have anywhere else to go. There was no heat, no water, no electricity. I slept on the floor, woke up, went to L.A. I was so pissed.